Rokirovka v dlinnuyu storonu (1969) - full transcript

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LENFILM

First Creative Union 1969

Castling the long way

Script: Yuri Vasil'ev Vladimir Grigor'ev

Screenplay: Vladimir Grigor'ev

Operator: Vladimir Chymak

Artist: E. Gukov

Composer: A. Gagulashvili
Sound operator: I. Volkova

Montage: R. Shvarz Director: M.
Sheinin Operator: Yu. Voronzov

Costumes: E. Amshinskaya
Make-up: A. Bufetova

Assistant directors: V.
Zhyravel' A. Grigor'ev N.



Stepanov Operators: G. Alehin
D. Garashenkov V. Markov

Editor V. Shwarz
Conductor Yu. Serebriakov

Director: B. Griner

Actors: Boris Lebedev -
ALEKSANDR DEM'YANENKO

Brooks: AL'GIMANTAS MASYULIS

Sonya - IRINA VAVILOVA

Rebrov - P. LUSPEKAEV Viktor: O. KORNICH

Konchinski - M. EKATERININSKY, Henry
- G. POLOKA, Karson - S. KOSMAUSKAS

In episodes: Z. Dorogova L.
Dranizin N. Zhyravel' N. Karpenko

Yu. Nesterov G. Nilov A.
Suvorov V. Tumanov M. Yurasova

Put your glasses on

You have arrived

You don't recognise me?

My surname is Brooks



I don't care

Put me in touch with the Embassy

Do not start with the banale

You are an intelligent man

Put me in touch with the Embassy!

Read

Here

Lower

In light of above, I
ask for political asylum

Do you recognise the signature?

Not mine

You are too categorical

Tests can be performed

These injections

What was injected?

Calm down

There will be no more injections

You had alcohol poisoning

Try to remember

Yesterday night in
Meinz in the restaraunt

During the celebration

Do you remember?

Oh yes, you really are unwell

You need a rest

Well, how was it?

He is overly excitable

That is what appeals to me

With whom was he on
probation in West Germany?

With Professor Mullmann

From the Heidenberg university. He
is of very high opinion about Lebedev

His intellect is ten or
eleven on a twelve-bar scale

It does not concern
you that he is a biologist

No, it does not concern me

Not even a tiny bit

On the contrary - he will be useful to
us as he knows the necessary material

Have you really stopped the injection?

Yes. I want him to
decide with a clear mind

Otherwise he may surprise us later

He can surprise us now
- there are two days untill

the end and his
dissappearance may be noticed

During two days I will find a key to him

But... in case of most extreme scenario

We have psychiatric hospitals

No injections

Calm down

The injections are abolished

But you will have to take this

It is a sleeping pill

Everything is all right

Try to fall asleep

Let's go

Where were you?

Just conversation with
a chance aquintance

Well then

Today you look at lot better

Maybe there is something
you'd like to ask of me

Please, do not be shy

My tie

Naturally, it will be returned to you

Actually...

It does not match

As you like

Let us not play hide-and-seek,
as they say in Russia

We are interested in you

We hope to generate interest in response

You hope to create a revolution
in biology with my help?

I am glad you have not
lost a sense of humour

So, about your business

You have not become involved by accident

If one looks at you carefully

It is not hard to guess that you
have somehow lost yourself in life

Interesting

I was born in Leningrad

During the blockade, in winter

I was very weak and barely survived

Only started walking
two-and-a-half years old

Then they noticed one of my
legs was shorter than the other

Blockade rations and all that

When I was nine I had an operation
but never could completely stop limping

Just a little imperfection,
and because of it...

You retreated into yourself

Discovered a painfully high self-esteem

You immersed yourself
fully in books, in Science

But it is unlikely that you were
valued as high as you deserved to be

But your probation period in
West Germany went splendidly

By the way, you met Sonya Sterz there

Do you remember how
you were tortured by doubts?

Who Fraulein Sof'ya would
prefer: yourself or Victor?

I am forced to listen to whatever
rubbish comes into your head

But one thing I insist on

Do not pry into my private life

Ok?

Who has a private life nowadays?

A private life!

I want to help you find yourself

We want action - unstoppable
protest against the goverment

That is the main aim of the
Union of German Socialist Students

Initally we need to limit the
universities link with industry

This is how we can prevent
the serial production of idiots

I would genuinely like
to wish you success

But what will you achieve?

When you become parents,
your children will also rebel

Rebel against you!

You radical view is simply a
manifestation of biological aggression

It will burn out with age

How old are you?

You are our guest and we
are forced to speak politely

You are wrong to be
shy, I say what I think

Young people must find a
way to cooperate with society

The question is - with which society

We have started to look carefully at our
society and we are convinced it is rotten

It emits a stink

You ought to cut your hair
more often or use deodorant

You want to cleanse society?

Look carefully at yourselves

Who have you chosen as your teachers?

The argentinian Che Guevara

The frenchman Juilles De Braille

The black man Fanon

Some of you the chinese man, Mao

Do you present a united power?

Which is capable of making society better

Yes, we have different leaders,
but we care about the same problems

The place of the King and Kennedy
brothers makes us no less furious

than the appeance in our
country of followers of Adolf Hitler

One of whom shot our Comrade Rody Duchki

We have the same mottos
and a wide set of political right

The participation in
university management

Stopping the war in Vietnam

Nothing has united
American and British students

as much as protesting
against the Vietnam war

Only russian students
have remained indifferent to it

You became a student during the Korean
war and studied in three colleges since

It is time for you to speak on
behalf of an older generation

I do not think you are as naive
as you try to pretend you are

It is the help our country provides
Vietnam, including weapons

Which holds the invasion
within certain boundaries

But you did not answer the question

Is that the official viewpoint?

I would like to know
your personal opinion

Thirty years ago russian
men went to fight in Spain

Like young americans, french, germans

Are you satisfied by my reply?

Thank you

I would like to ask
your friend a question

What does he think
about Marks' doctrine of the

death of "State"
during socialism?

Is it correct?

Yes, historical
circumstances will lead to a

replacement of State
with communal goverment

But only during Communism

Is that your personal opinion?

If an atomic war does not get in our way

Bravo, you spoke wonderfully!

Although what you believe
is, of course, unachievable

And what do you believe in?

My Dear, illusions are very dangerous

It is them which will one
day lead to an explosion

Practicality, on the contrary,
allows to calm the beast

At every step we demonstrate
our devotion to society

Our readiness to serve it

Where as in reality we
are serving all of humankind

You do not agree?

Your friend is a great
dancer, the girl too

Yes, I liked you back then

Your entire being was
keen on achieving one goal

To conquer Sonya

It was then, as should have been expected

You said something you should not have

What exactly?

Are you familiar with this Magazine?

Aren't you?

The replacement of
state with community ruling

- that what young
Soviet scientists deman

That can be achieved if the
goverment does not start an atomic war

They claimed

Falsification

The wording is somewhat
licensious, but when this article

is put together with your
dissappearance from Germany

And appearance here

Just one question

Please

Tell me. That day, in
the castle of Hornberg

Were you not ashamed
to pretend to be a scholar

No, I really am a scholar

Not a biologist like you, a physisist

Interesting, which domain of
Physics do your current activities fit?

My young colleague

The last days of war

Hitler already had rockets
that could start from submarines

He was going to use them to
attack New York and your Leningrad

Due to the spy activity, Hitlers
secrets remained no longer his alone

Maybe that is why you are alive

Hitler's secrets

Hitlers secrets became yours
when our troops entered Berlin

Very well

Let us no longer speak
of the dead man Hitler

Let us instead speak of your
compatriot, Professor Konchinsky

Sir Lebedev, Sir Chernov - Doctor
Mullman awaits you in the library

I can give you good news - your
paper has been published in America

Look, I have kept my promise

You will receive payment in a month

In your place I would wait untill you
return to Leningrad before publication

Are you serious?

In any case, you would be
published abroad sooner or later

You know, times have changed

In the past, biologists used to be
quartered for respecting the West

Now the West bows to us
for what we are doing here

I did not know you had such opinions

Here are the two young
slackers I told you about

Professor Konchinsky
would like to meet you

Our famous compatriot

Greetings, Sirs

I have read your article

Very interesting

My colleague Chernov is also
writing a very interesting piece of work

Yes, especially his methodology

Pleasant to hear it

I carefully follow works
of young russian biologists

Even though we belong
to different generations

By the way, Gentlemen, I
have come to make you an offer

Would you like to work in
my laboratory for a year or two

I think my colleague
here will not be jealous

I have secrets to share

Business-related and otherwise

Personally, I'd love to
accept your offer but...

I hope you understand it does
not just depend on my wishes

I understand

I want just one thing: for
everything to be open between us

I left Russia as a student

With my parents

Except one occasion,
for which I paid dearly

I never got involved in politics

I corresponded with
Vavilov and Shemerkaudze

But now these names are
respected in Russia, as far as I know

I do not know what is
thought of me in my Homeland

But I always felt for my Homeland...

In short, Gentlemen

My soul is pure

In front of you

If I tempt you to join me for a year

Do you think you
aquiantance with

Konchinsky will do
you any favours there?'

Not at all

His speech about emigrants is published

The year 1921

There are newer ones

Two young russian scientist are
invited to work in West Germany

So what?

How can this emigrant newspaper
have known about a private conversation?

It is on the tape of your tape-recorder

Quite possibly

But you have not replied to my question

It seems that Konchinsky is
collaborating with the emigrants

Oh yes

It will look just like that

You are wrong to view it so lightly

By the way, would you
like to know what your

friend Chernov thinks of
Konchinskys invitation?

A fantastic offer
guarantees a great career

The old man is so
famous that after working

with him you will be
taken to any laboratory

Even in the States

That is impossible

By the way, I don't
know about Boris, but I...

Do you mean that girl, Sonya? For her...

Again you misunderstand me

Turns out he is smarter than you,
and you are left with nothing again

What are you on about?

Who do you want to deceive?

You think I don't know
what happened between you

There is something
appealing in being able

to read other's
thoughts, isn't there?

Yes

If you forget for a
minute it is dishonourable

Yes, dishonourable

But do not forget what
sort of world we live in

Lies all around

Spies

Betrayal

Better to read thoughts of others
than to allow them to read yours

You will find that out soon

Today you met with Professor Konchinsky

A lovely, though somewhat naive old
man offers you to work for him for a year

If it is worth fighting
for this, then only for S.

By this mysterious "S."
I assume Sonya Sterz is meant

Now you recognise your own handwriting

Remember what you wrote
on the 14th of february?

I never thought I could be so happy

This takes me higher
than what I could imagine

It is not hard to understand

For know reasons, you were
not spoilt by female attention

And then, on the 14th february...

You are easily influenced

But are direct enough

You life will be long

Very

The line of fate

The line of fate...

Is about 30 years long

Another line appears

Which is next to the first
line and strengthens it

What a pleasant surprise!

Happy to see you, Sonya

But it seems you do not feel
the same. Have I guessed right?

You guessed right

Boris

Your girlfriend has lovely manners

She cannot spit in a man's face

I wanted a chess game

Will have to do it next time

Bye!

Do you have any wine?

No, Sonya

I have some in the car

Will you go get it?

My dad died in 1944

That is why I do not remember him at all

When he died, things
were hard for Mother and I

One time, we did not eat for several days

So I went to the refuse-tip

Wanted to find something

But it was too late

So, and suddently

A woman with a bucket

Gave me two herring-heads

I grabbed them, ran

But then saw a girl
standing in an entrance

A girl just like me maybe a little older

She was looking at me

I stretched the fish heads out to her

She grabbed them and
shouted to me: Get lost!

I couldn't step away, I just
stood there and looked at her

Then she lifted her arm and...

Why am I telling you all this?

It's my Grandmothers

I will stay at yours tonight

They told me you are not eating

That is a mistake -
you need your strength

Another piece of advice

Never reveal your feelings

I have already started to reform

Great

So let us talk about Sonya Sterz

Do you not think there is something
strange in the way she treats you?

I do not think that

You are tired?

Mummy sent a letter

Is inviting us to Meinz for three days

You thought of this trip yourself

Myself?

Mummy will be pleased

How will you introduce me?

My mum does not ask questions

May I ask you a stupid question?

Borya...

We are together

What else can there be?

We will be together
for another month or two

Do you think about that?

Borya

Can you stay here for a year at least?

No

I cannot go with you

My mother is here

My Father

My Father lived here, everything
is here for me, you see?

You will leave, I will stay

Both you and I must continue living

Or do you think we will
jump under a train together?

No

Borya

Let us not make
things difficult, I ask you

You do it cunningly

You could do it too

I lack the imagination

Nonsense

It is very simple

We have the equipment to record
sound at a distance of 50-70 metres

Even if you whisper

But with the permission
of your friend, the

microphone could
have been on her person

Bravo

First Chernov, Konchinsky

Now Sonya

There is no love, friendship

Denying it is no less
banale than believing it

My goal is different

Life is such that you
are unlikely to be believed

But rather our version will be trusted

Any tale about Sonya will be trusted

And when you believe this you
will have to collaborate with us

You are wasting your time

We have almost reached our goal

It remains to remind
you of your trip to Meinz

To the celebration of "Fashing"

Lebedev

That is for the sleeves

This medal is given for the best dance

This is a princess crown

Greeting at the Fashing and then kissing

You probably will not understand me

But I was always against Slavistics

Sonya is obstinate

Just like her dad

She wanted to read
Dostoevsky in the original

Mummy has started on her favourite topic

Really, I am not sure why you
are so against Slavic studies

English, Italian, Japanese
give well-paid jobs

Where as Slavic studies

What?

What is up with you

I do not want to work

In any large company

Life is harsher than
you would like it to be

Boris, are there similar
celebrations in Russia?

Maslenitsia

Before they would ride on
Troika horse-carriages with bells

Burned straw dolls symbolising winter

Made pancakes

Boris, I want to ask

What is wrong with your leg?

With my leg

I was born during the Leningrad Blockade

In winter

You are unfair towards him

Our feelings for each other are serious

Maybe he is a great
person, but he is from Russia

Everything repeats itself, Sonya

Everything

Your Father was german

How much he had to go
through because I am Chekh

Maybe he will stay in
Germany another year

He has been invited to work

In a large laboratory

He promised

Did you really promise her?

No

How can you prove that

How can you explain what
happened in the restaraunt yesterday

Sonya was a little drunk

And that is it?

No-one will believe that

Do you want to spoil
the celebration for me?

Just today I ask you
not to create problems

Do not drink, Sonya

Leave me alone!

I am a grown-up

I know for myself what I
should and should not do

You do not want to
give anything up for me

Who have we here?

Where did you come from?

Just like you I have come to celebrate

Where they drink the most

Sonechka, you will allow me?

What to do with you,
fool, you may sit here

Let us drink

Let us

I am bored otherwise here

With pleasure, my dear fools

Who is that man?

Offering heroin

Listen, maybe you should try some?

A real man should experience
everything, right, Sonya?

What are you laughing at?

Based on your hair...

You are an idiot

Sonya!

Brudershaft

How I understand you

But it is worth staying for this girl

What do you mean?

Do not pretend to be a fool

I know everything

So

Twelve hours later, you were here

Now you can assess
the situation for yourself

You were constantly
connected to Henry Arland

He is well known as a
drug-dealer by international police

It is likely that you discussed your
Homeland unfavourably with him

The emigrant Konchinsky
offered you to stay in Germany

Sonya Sterz also
encouraged you to do that

In the Meinz restarant
during celebrations

You started drunk debauchery

You ended up at
the police-station,

afraid of the consequences
of your actions

Naturally, you came to us
asking for political asylum

That is how it will all appear

I want to help you find yourself

To become stronger

More confident

To control your life

Instead of being a
robot amongst thousands

No everyone is capable
of it, but you could

Now

With my help

If you refuse - your life and
scientific career will perish anyway

Suspicious looks behind your back

You will remain a loser

In addition

You love her very much

Don't you?

You would not want to ruin her fate too

I must tell you that
the West Germany

intelligence has
investigated you thoroughly

Even using infra-red to film at night

I myself dissapprove of such methods

I would do anything
to destroy these tapes

You understand

To do that, it is necessary...

I want to see these tapes

Best not

I will stay at yours tonight

Stop!

I agree

Glad to hear it. I am
sure you will never regret it

Although I understand
how hard it was for you

Enough!

Your conditions?

Look outside

A magnificent sight, isn't it?

Here, in the ocean, lies
the salvation of human kind

From hunger for minerals and thirst

In the next hundred years the
continents will feel a lack of coal

Oil

Iron, and even fresh water

Of course, this is not
the only explanation

of increased
interest in the Ocean

There is another reason

Atomic submaries have
become a strong military force

The ability to exist underwater
for a lengthy period of time

Ease of movement

Makes them a fine strategic weapon

The Arctic is a unique region
of military submarine activity

Surfacing through the ice, the atomic
submarine reaches the North Pole

Electronic technology
allows precise target aim

A rocket fired from
underwated can reach

almost any point on
the Northern hemisphere

This is all very interesting

But I am not sure how it relates to me

You need to change
your field of work slightly

What do you mean?

You will work on the sea

Marine microbiology, to be precise

Do you think that is so simple?

No, you will receive
scientific materials from us

Present them in Leningrad as your own

That will help you intergrate into
the University which interests us

What will I need to
do in this University?

Do not hurry

Initially you need to stabilise
your position in the new place

To earn our full trust

At present I am forced to be very
cautious with you - that is my job

Tell me, do you regret leaving
you previous profession, physics?

Do you think I do not
realise what I am doing?

Both my side and yours are
accumulating a great military potential

Only the equal balance of forces
prevents the world from catastrophe

When one country overtakes
another in military technology level

Only you as a technology
intelligence worker

are able to unconspicously
restore harmony

Is that not a great goal?

I do not share your happiness

Spying is dirty work

I am forced to work for you

But for me science and
espionage will never be compatible

You will say that science
today works for the military

That is a well-used phrase

Not Einstein, others made
an atomic bomb of his theory

Yes, I used to reason just as you did

But time freed me of illusions

I prefer to live with illusions

Heya, how was the celebration in Meinz

Never better

I bet you didn't waste time

Hello?

Borya, what happened?

It was all ok

Do you hear me?

I think we are both being watched

It is better for us not to meet

Boris, darling, what happened?

Why are you silent

Borya!

Studying oceanography?

I did not know you scientific
interests are so wide

We have not seen each other for a
long time and I have missed you terribly

Maybe let us play?

Just one little game

I am sorry, I must run

Wait, we will have to
play our farewell game

That is what Doctor Brooks asked

You won't need to think

Everything has been thought of for us

Taking a pawn means
your materials are acquired

Castling the long way means
a personal meeting is needed

Not bad, huh?

Yes

Very well thought of

Gentlemen, our year of
working together is over

I see our separation
with sadness and with joy

Gentlemen

Let us drink for biology

For our science which I consider sacred

It is my conviction that there is no
science more human than biology

You are leaving?

Yes, Sonya, tomorrow

I know something happened with you

Am I to blame somehow?

I was suffering thinking of
that all the time we were apart

No, Sonya, it is not your fault

Then what?

You do not know

We could not have met

It would have turned against you
and I must know all is well with you

That nothing threatens you

Now I must leave

Right now that is the only way out

I cannot live without you, Boris

Maybe everything will be well

Excuse me please

Mr Lebedev, if I am not mistaken?

Yes

Pleased to meet you, I am Dr Karson

All right, Boris, speak later

Please

I have a small gift
from Dr Mullman for you

We met at the congress in the Hague

I can bring the gift to you tomorrow

After eight pm

I will try to return by the
end of the perfomance

Excuse me

Please come in

Thank you

Maybe you would like tea or coffee?

Now I am keeping house
alone, Mother is in the country

Thank you, I will not stay long

You know every minute
is valuable for a tourist

I was asked to pass this gift to you

Thank you for the book

That is too much, really

It is strange that Dr Mullman
sent me a book on oceanography

Mullman?

That is the first time I hear this name

Did you not mention it yesterday?

No, I spoke of Dr Brooks

There is some misunderstanding

You have confused me with
someone, I know of no Dr Brooks

Brooks asked me to tell you, Alex

Your trial period is over,
time for serious work

Hide this packed at yours for now

It will need to be passed on
to one of our Soviet friends

Who cannot meet foreigners himself

We will inform you where
and when you should pass it on

Money is hidden in the books cover,
and page 341 contains a coded message

With future tasks

Boris Petrovich?

You must be in the Hermtage at two-thirty

Yes, Roden's building

No, you will be approached

A stunning sculpture

Come down to the smoking room

The task is being cancelled

Where is the package?

Excuse me, you dropped something

Be calmer

Calmer

Your prevoius materials received a
high mark and helped us in some ways

Have you familiarised yourself
with the new instructions?

I am leaving on an
expedition to the Barentsev sea

In a month

Very well, I will let Dr Brooks know

He will find a way to give
you detailed instructions

When, where?

Do not worry, we will find a way

Prepare

Hi, Boris

Here is the probe

The meeting place with
Dr Brook.... Degrees latitude

Degrees longtitude

Machine to a hundred

I will go check the buoy

You brought the walkie-talkie?

Lower the boat from the left

You have changed

The sea has done you good, colleague

Glad to see you

Me also

I hope your boat is
far enough, the locators

from "Persei"
could see it

Yes, I know. They will
return for me in two hours

We need to discuss things thoroughly

Sound, that is the problem

Radiowaves we use to communicate
cannot pass through water

We can only locate our enemy using sound

But for that we need to know all
that affects sound quality and speed

Temperature and salt
concentration of water

Warm and cold currents,
the sea-bed surface

Even microorganism presence.

Gradually, will our help you will find
know your way around these issues

Here is your task

It addition to what we discussed before

This is much more serious
compared to your previous tasks

The new real work begins

They are already coming for me

The circumstances must have changed

Well then, time to say good-bye

I wish you success, colleague

See you, Mr Brooks

Seal openings, immediate submergence

Take a seat, please

You understand fully what happened to
you and need no consolations, do you?

Your name is well-known to me since 1945

Then you worked with Miss Yasus

And worked with Hitler's
atomic bomb secrets

I was simply an army
special-service agent

Then later, I would come across your
name in the context of rocket business

And now we meet in the ocean

Yes, Sir Brooks, you and
I are far from young men

Yes

You recognise the signature

It is not mine

You are a soviet secret service agent?

No

I have just one question

As well as his scientific activities

Did Lebedev do anything else?

No

Boris is only a scientist

Yes, only

Shortly before Fashing,
we discovered a

provocation against
Lebedev is being prepared

A few days in advance we were
able to warn Boris of the danger

We decided there was no need
to interrupt his scholarly sabbatical

Just one thing we
could not have predicted

That you will sink to a violent abduction

And use force

When Dr Karson appeared in Leningrad

It became clear you
have long-reaching aims

We had no choice but to respond

That is the only role Boris had

By the way, we have a high opinion of you

Thank you

I didn't write to you for a long time

I needed time to understand
how hard it is without you

I want to see you

I will come to you

I do not know when it will become
possible, it needs strength to achieve

It is Christmas here now

When I was coming back
from Meinz University,

the fairground
roundabouts were spinning

But the streets were empty
and everything for me stopped

I am glad you decided to come

I understand that is difficult

Maybe like no-one else, I know
what a difficult world we live in

But I know that from
this unbelievable difficulty

we need to obtain the
simplest and kindest truths

I have a lot of work now

This will help me to wait

The End